Ventilation tubes in infants increase the risk of otorrhoea and antibiotic usage

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Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 173-176

  Ingels, Koen ^a   Rovers, M M ^a,b   Van Der Wilt, G J ^a   Zielhuis, G A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antibiotic treatment; Otitis media (OM); Otorrhoea; Ventilation tubes (VT)

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; EAR DROPS; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; OTALGIA; OTORRHEA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SECRETORY OTITIS MEDIA; TYMPANOSTOMY TUBE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OTORRHEA; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE EAR VENTILATION; NETHERLANDS; OBSERVATION; OTITIS MEDIA WITH EFFUSION; RECURRENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645222632     PISSN: 1781782X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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